Re: CHAT: New to list

E. Notagain wrote:

>I'm not sure if introductions are traditional here, but I'll take my
>chances.
>
Oh, people do 'em often enough. I never bothered, it involves telling
too much at once ;) (And yet I use my real name...) Some of us use them
as competitions to try to beat Christophe at getting intros out (Hi
Christophe! :P)

>I've been interested in languages for as long as I can remember, and tried
>to create one when I was 11, before I had even heard of conlang or even
>Lord of the Rings (which, to this day, I have never been able to read, but
>I speak some Quenya and Sindarin anyway. *shrugs*).
>
I did something similar (except I don't think I'd broken my first decade
yet) ;) (And a lot of people haven't/couldn't get themselves to read
LotR, so no need to feel special. ;) )

>The "language" I made
>wasn't really a language at all, just a collection of Spanish, Kemetic and
>Hawaiian words used as a code for English.
>
My first language, on the other hand, was total gibberish that came
along with a script and was called 'Tristanlang' and was spoken in
'Tristanland'. My other siblings had similar things. I'm the only one
who ever conlanged later.

>In the few years since then I've gotten even deeper into languages, and
>recently (read: about six months ago) discovered that not only do a LOT of
>other people make languages, but there're names for the different types and
>communities of people who do this.
>
Stranger things have and do happen ;)

>My particular areas of interest are creating the words themselves, followed
>by scripts, followed by grammar and pronunciation (tie).
>
At this point, I'll say I find word-creating the most boring, tedious
part of the whole endeavor.

>And, does anyone know a good, free online guide to learning any Devangari-
>based scripts? (Bengali is best, but it doesn't matter much)
>AND, where can I find the IPA phonetic alphabet, as applicable to ASCII?
>
For both of those, take a look at the links at
<http://www.conlanglinks.tk>. Bookmark that page; set it as your
homepage. A useful page!

>Thanks for any help (and I hope I'm not too hard to understand -- I'm
>suffering from a Dr. Pepper overdose),
>
Eurgh... how can anyone drink that stuff?? It surprises me that they
still sell it. Anything that uses 'I could get used to it' as their
advertising campaign shouldn't expect to last long. (At least it's
reasonably hard to find Down Under.) (Though maybe it's different in
Australia from everywhere else; Mountain Dew is apparently
caffeine-heavy elsewhere and Sprite is lemonade (think 7-Up, not Solo)
in Australia, but apparently lemon-lime elsewhere.)

Tristan.

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